From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 07:47:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA1F106568B; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:47:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sarawgi.aditya@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f190.google.com (mail-px0-f190.google.com [209.85.216.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898658FC14; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi28 with SMTP id 28so4681318pxi.7 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:47:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=aAZQDAloEVwRETWk5T1NUEuOYmfmap0gDocbYc92FMg=; b=vMb9ixa/gHZN05WBEJCt8FWiLTf/Zt3l+SmYxP5j62CVPYaxHXxaKwnsuuZC++3IM3 NoKa+6e+dIv73EEgHk9zcAjHLWOdxlH6OMrZ45mGDdft+UoAgPX8WJNuR4bZweX2ixRw hTRbpEFe9pP37zYFAfqCFrNEnsOdLJg87vRsE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=RoqyioLcF/KB5CsKMUMsP4Pzq6vTCanR13P/kDhkN8p4XOaDux2pAKorskz3pfP81C pHjQJp0xk5uGxWm+8GqvSrKxdJyzSkw+zPBeX5AzYBVvsH4LXRUpPmhlsv2OUY6mGwa2 IEKdEb1Sy4BGz8ffDp91gsLw4l712r6QFF8xU= Received: by 10.142.66.21 with SMTP id o21mr102559wfa.47.1261554473892; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:47:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ([183.87.28.162]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm6679473pzk.5.2009.12.22.23.47.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:47:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:18:48 +0000 From: Aditya Sarawgi To: Weongyo Jeong Message-ID: <4b31cb29.9413f30a.5f4a.ffff8382@mx.google.com> References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: attilio@freebsd.org, spikey.it@gmail.com, gnemmi@gmail.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:47:54 -0000 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:53:31PM -0800, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > Hello, > > Now bwn(4) is available at the public and waiting test and review. The > status of this driver is *alpha* so could make panics, warnings and > errors. Please let me know if you encounter problems. > > The following NICs all I have are only tested on the little endian 64bit > machine and big endian 32bit machine. > > - Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless > - Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless > > I tested basic RX, TX and WPA association as STA mode and checked it > worked. > > As you might know there are still a lot of TODO in the driver so you > could see some verbose messages during testing so please ignore or let > me know it makes problems. > > == How to build and load == > > # cd /usr/src/sys > # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_20091222.tar.gz > # tar xzf bwn_20091222.tar.gz > # cd modules/ssb > # make && make install > # cd ../.. > # cd modules/bwn > # make && make install > # cd somewhere > # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz > # tar xzf bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz > # cd sysutils/b43-fwcutter > # make install clean > # cd ../.. > # cd net/bwn-firmware-kmod > # make install clean > # > # kldload ssb > # kldload bwn_v4_ucode > # kldload if_bwn > > regards, > Weongyo Jeong > Hi, The driver doesn't work with BCM4315, here's what dmesg shows ssb0: mem 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci6 bwn0 on ssb0 bwn0: unsupported PHY type (5) device_attach: bwn0 attach returned 6 -- Aditya Sarawgi